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John Lasseter arrives for his interview in a big red bug with metal eyelashes. "Come see my bug!" he yells, grinning and waving from down the street. Wine connoisseurs in town to tour Sonoma's vineyards turn to stare. Kids point and giggle. The "bug" turns out to be a Volkswagen painted as a lady bug to promote the Oscar-winning director's other "bug"--Pixar's computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main...
...Times within three months of its 1997 debut; his Mercer Kitchen was the buzz of New York before it opened this fall; he has exported his French-Asian marvel, Vong, to London and Hong Kong. Both men have no qualms about lending their name. Vongerichten sells condiments through Williams-Sonoma, and Ducasse has just brought out a champagne label and a line of products ranging from $25 olive oil to $28,000 stoves. Ducasse dreams of cracking the New York market, and though he speaks virtually no English, he and top Chicago chef Charlie Trotter, a good friend, fantasize about...
...emporium. Children's stores entice their young clientele with play areas and performances, while athletic retailers like Oshman's and the Sports Authority woo customers with batting cages, on-site golf pros and roller hockey games in the parking lot. Veer beyond the All-Clad pots offered at Williams-Sonoma and you might just stumble upon a cooking class. Walk into an Old Navy clothing store and you're apt to find clerks handing out tote bags for carrying merchandise, a soda fountain, and a billboard announcing the store's au courant motto: SHOPPING IS FUN AGAIN...
...look like child's play. It's frightening to see how our government is in peril because of a twentysomething twit. We are heading down a dangerous road with these investigations, and I hope our representatives realize that everyone can be subjected to this invasive process. ANNE M. CORE Sonoma, Calif...
LOCATION 2,700 pristine acres in the redwood forest of Sonoma County on the banks of the Russian River...